Interview with Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak

During last week’s media preview of the Computer History Museum’s new exhibit, “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing,” I had the opportunity to talk with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak about Apple’s first two computers, the Apple I and Apple II.

Up to the point in time Woz developed the Apple I, commercial computer hardware and software was developed by separate teams – Woz cites Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine as an example of how computers were developed back in the day.

In the interview, Steve talks about that unique point in time when hardware and software development converged and one person was able to do it all. The result, Woz’s Apple I, and its sequel, the Apple II, launched Apple Computer and the microcomputer industry.